Royal Shakespeare Society, March 2017
Everything you have heard
is true: the story has a princess,
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You know Shakespeare very well, i must say. Like Susan, i'm stunned too. Shakespeare had this quality of making even a fairy tale look real. To this day, we living in this modern era, can relate to his characters n can feel the emotions they felt. His timelessness n universality make him the best in the world of literature. That's life...a beautiful island, a pure woman and a monster. A great write. A sure 10.
Daniel, you stun me. I should not be surprised. You always stun me. I had a wonderfully stirring and intelligent professor at college teaching me two years of Shakespeare... I never thought anybody anywhere his match or even close to being his match. But I could have learned from you as well, Daniel. You could write a text with which teachers and professors could pass on the heart and soul of the best of literature.... you really could. I sit here imagining a high school student somewhere reading this poem and his mind springing open and saying- - Oh! I get it now! ! ! WoW! ! ! ! ! ! You are the best, Daniel, in so many ways. 10++++++++++++ and a place on my fav poems
I remember having studied Tempest in my undergraduate level...! The characters are still vivid in my memory... Miranda with her beauty and angelic charm, Ariel the sprite, Caliban the subhuman creature and the central figure, Prospero..... all live in the hearts of readers even though centuries have passed! This is a miniature form of the world we live in... Yes, there is a monster wherever we turn, a heavenly sprite to save us in times of danger, blooming love as that of Miranda and Ferdinand, crime and forgiveness......! Thanks for reviving those memories once more! You are a master in retelling classical lore!